History Trivia / WhatIf

** In the original ending of ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', the Shi'Ar left Jean without powers. Editor Jim Shooter did not like it, because that would be too soft for someone who had just killed an entire solar system; and the ending was rewritten to be Jean's death. The original ending was eventually published in "Phoenix: the untold story". One of the "What if" stories takes this original ending as a premise, and builds from there.

* ScheduleSlip: There have been at least three extended periods (one from April to July 2015, one from September 2015 to January 2016, and one from April to December 2016[[note]]Only three updates in this period[[/note]]) where Randall has not updated the blog with little explanation, although evidence suggests that the first two periods were connected to book releases (one of which was the What If compilation). There were only four updates in 2017, in January, February and March. In 2018, only one update was released. There was only one update in 2019.

** Creator/ChrisClaremont and Creator/JohnByrne had an idea for an issue where a young Professor X was killed during his battle with Lucifer (which merely crippled him in the mainline universe), leading to the original X-Men instead being formed by Magneto. The team would have consisted of Cyclops, Jean Grey (renamed Psyke rather than Marvel Girl), Comicbook/{{Iceman}}, Beast (who would've sported mechanical WolverineClaws), Angel (renamed Archangel and wielding a flaming sword), Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, and essentially served as a modified version of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. The story would've followed the mutants as they destroyed the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and even Doctor Doom (with Magneto killing Doom by crushing his metal chest plate), eventually leading mutants conquering the planet. However, the issue would have ended with Galactus arriving and devouring the Earth, as the destruction of the Fantastic Four meant that there was nobody to stop him.

** "All Possible Worlds'' incorrectly portrays ComicBook/GhostRider as being Johnny Blaze instead of Danny Ketch, even though the latter was Ghost Rider during the New Fantastic Four arc. Mike Wieringo was going to correct it when he redrew the pages, but he suffered AuthorExistenceFailure before he could. The other artists decided not to change it, in honour of Mike.
!'' The Animated Series''
* AuthorExistenceFailure: Creator/ChadwickBoseman was set to return as T'Challa, with one episode focusing on him as Star-Lord, but his death in August 2020 leaves this story's fate in limbo.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the original ending of ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', the Shi'Ar left Jean without powers. Editor Jim Shooter did not like it, because that would be too soft for someone who had just killed an entire solar system; and the ending was rewritten to be Jean's death. The original ending was eventually published in "Phoenix: the untold story". One of the "What if" stories takes this original ending as a premise, and builds from there.

* ScheduleSlip: There have been at least three extended periods (one from April to July 2015, one from September 2015 to January 2016, and one from April to December 2016[[note]]Only three updates in this period[[/note]]) where Randall has not updated the blog with little explanation, although evidence suggests that the first two periods were connected to book releases (one of which was the What If compilation). There were only four updates in 2017, in January, February and March. In 2018, only one update was released.

** WritingAroundTrademarks

!''[[WesternAnimation/WhatIf The Animated Series]]''
* RoleReprisal: Actors from the MCU have been confirmed to be reprising their roles. Seeing as the series is A) animated and B) depicting alternate universe events it's far more likely to get actors from the movies on board compared to previous series.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: TheSeries

* ScheduleSlip: There have been at least three extended periods (one from April to July 2015, one from September 2015 to January 2016, and one from April to December 2016[[note]]Only three updates in this period[[/note]]) where Randall has not updated the blog with little explanation, although evidence suggests that the first two periods were connected to book releases (one of which was the What If compilation). There were only four updates in 2017, in January, February and March. Only one update has been released since then, over a year later, in May 2018.

!''Blog.WhatIf''

!''ComicBook.WhatIf''

!''WesternAnimation/WhatIf''

* ScheduleSlip: There have been at least three extended periods (one from April to July 2015, one from September 2015 to January 2016, and one from April to December 2016 [[note]]Only three updates in this period [[/note]]) where Randall has not updated the blog with little explanation, although evidence suggests that the first two periods were connected to book releases (one of which was the What If compilation). There were only four updates in 2017, in January, February and March.

* ReferencedBy: [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/98/ "I don't want to draw someone throwing up a gallon of blood, so here's a squirrel instead."]] [[https://youtu.be/xHePoR0mRTY This video]] about Jewish languages gives us "I don't want to talk about the Holocaust, so here's a squirrel instead."

* ScheduleSlip: There have been at least three extended periods (one from April to July 2015, one from September 2015 to January 2016, and one from April to December 2016 [[note]]Only three updates in this period [[/note]]) where Randall has not updated the blog with little explanation, although evidence suggests that the first two periods were connected to book releases (one of which was the What If compilation).

* ScheduleSlip: There have been at least two extended periods (one from April to July 2015, and one from September 2015 to January 2016) where Randall has not updated the blog with little explanation, although evidence suggests that both periods are/were connected to book releases (one of which was the What If compilation).

** IcarusAllusion is the last image of [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/30/ "Interplanetary Cessna"]] (and the page quote is from the same article).

** IcarusAllusion is the last image of [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/30/ "Interplanetary Cessna"]].

* ImageSource: [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/21/ "Machine Gun Jetpack"]] gives us RecoilBoost.

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